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The Stronger Fitter Piper #5: More Exercises for Shoulder Strength and Mobility (HD Video)

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This episode of the Stronger Fitter Piper series covers more exercises for the shoulder's external rotators. Trainer John follows up on the previous rotator cuff episode with a few simple exercises using household items like water bottles or a resistance band.

You don't need gym equipment — a bottle of water and a cut piece of bicycle inner tube will do the job. The external rotators are the muscles most bagpipers need to target, since our playing posture tends to overwork the muscles at the front of the shoulder.

A resistance-band exercise lets you work both shoulders together, pulling out and back with elbows tucked in. Fifteen to twenty repetitions, done a couple of times a week, is enough to start feeling the difference deep in the shoulder muscles.

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The Stronger Fitter Piper #5: More Exercises for Shoulder Strength and Mobility (HD Video)

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00:00the cuff rotator Follow-up to episode🔒

00:45and soup cans bottles water weights: Household🔒

01:27rotation variation side-lying The🔒

02:55Working resistance with band a shoulders both🔒

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